Sorry, boys. My wife worked late tonight, so I cooked a late dinner. Then my fridge’s fan locked up, so I had to take everything out and defrost it pronto. All good now, but I'll have to catch up in a couple of weeks.
Just glad you're safe and have power, Matt. It was the same with us. We were northwest of the storm and only had a few hours of rain. All the flooding was in the southeastern part of the state.
So I am addicted to comics kayfabe wizard magazine reviews. These might be the best commentary of the 1990s comics explosion explained.
Here are things I have learned.
1) there is a 2.5 year window in which Todd McFarlane and Rob Liefeld are our Kirby. I am at the upper end of the window and I am sorry everyone else missed it because it awesome,. People a little older got Walt, Perez, and Byrne who are awesome. People below got decompressed comics.
2) I can tell Ed and I are close in age and Jim Rugg/Eric and Conrad are a little bit older because there is a cut off in what makes our fandom go.
3) There is a reason there was a giant economic downturn in comics in after 1994 and the blame goes all around.
4) it's a shame that image 1.0 and 2.0 couldn't keep a regular schedule because there was so many incredible ideas, creators, and energy in the first 2 years of image.
1) Even though I wasn't reading comics in the ’60s, Kirby was still my Kirby. Around the time I started getting comics more regularly (age 6 or so), Kirby came back to Marvel, and also his ’60s work was being reprinted in comics like Marvel Double Feature, so I was seeing old and new at the same time. Bicentennial Battles and the Silver Surfer graphic novel were big deals for me as a kid.
2) Jim is pretty much square in between you and I, Matt. I was in finishing college when Image started, but Jim was still in high school.
3) A lot of it was due to the collapse of the sports trading card market, and those speculators latching onto comics as the next big thing, often via Wizard. Saw a bunch of those people because I was working at a comic shop through that whole thing. During the five years I worked there, five new comic shops came and went, all within a 30-minute drive of our shop (my shop is still going). Then, of course, the publishers went all in on those speculators, feeding Wizard's growth, which fed the speculators, which kept the publishers pushing to the speculators, and so on.
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I don't remember if we discussed it on the previous group chat.
Happy Belated Birthday Eric
Thanks, Matt!
I'm going to try to get on tonight for meet up
Hope to see you there.
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https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89813179344?pwd=bXRXZ0ZwTHh1MEQ0QTBoTVVVcFV6dz09
Guys sorry. I had fallen asleep putting Samuel down and forgot about it
Hope to see you guys tonight.
https://meet.google.com/jda-mcyh-mtn
Ohh man tonight is going to be fun
Beach Blanket Bingo!
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To join the video meeting, click this link:
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Sorry, boys. My wife worked late tonight, so I cooked a late dinner. Then my fridge’s fan locked up, so I had to take everything out and defrost it pronto. All good now, but I'll have to catch up in a couple of weeks.
https://meet.google.com/dqy-mxzq-oyc
I was in the middle of some Mah Jong then I remembered we were meeting.
Eric,
I found a playlist with all the episodes of Phantom 2040 on YouTube
I'm going to try to be on tonight however the storm is coming my way and I am going to be on the outer edge.
If power goes out I'll probably not be on
I’ll probably be five or ten minutes late. Hope to see you then.
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85732462591?pwd=MGFFcFovSDNuS05zT1ZuWDhuT1d3QT09
Sorry guys I got busy last night and couldn't make it.
The hurricane passed southeast of us and we had no damage but Valdosta Ga (90 miles east) got hammered as the hurricane turned north
Just glad you're safe and have power, Matt. It was the same with us. We were northwest of the storm and only had a few hours of rain. All the flooding was in the southeastern part of the state.
I’m going to be 15 minutes late tonight. Hope to see you then.
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89418304938?pwd=QktTT3c2cWptN003VzZqTE4yR1VvZz09
Sorry guys I didn't leave the office until 9 last night and completely forgot about meet up
No worries, Matt. But you’re 0-2 now in the past two games now. You need to get out of that slump next time. ;)
Unless I fall asleep I will be on tonight
t.meet/rcu-kxgf-wvp
So I am addicted to comics kayfabe wizard magazine reviews. These might be the best commentary of the 1990s comics explosion explained.
Here are things I have learned.
1) there is a 2.5 year window in which Todd McFarlane and Rob Liefeld are our Kirby. I am at the upper end of the window and I am sorry everyone else missed it because it awesome,. People a little older got Walt, Perez, and Byrne who are awesome. People below got decompressed comics.
2) I can tell Ed and I are close in age and Jim Rugg/Eric and Conrad are a little bit older because there is a cut off in what makes our fandom go.
3) There is a reason there was a giant economic downturn in comics in after 1994 and the blame goes all around.
4) it's a shame that image 1.0 and 2.0 couldn't keep a regular schedule because there was so many incredible ideas, creators, and energy in the first 2 years of image.
meet.google.com/yve-vmig-nzn
1) Even though I wasn't reading comics in the ’60s, Kirby was still my Kirby. Around the time I started getting comics more regularly (age 6 or so), Kirby came back to Marvel, and also his ’60s work was being reprinted in comics like Marvel Double Feature, so I was seeing old and new at the same time. Bicentennial Battles and the Silver Surfer graphic novel were big deals for me as a kid.
2) Jim is pretty much square in between you and I, Matt. I was in finishing college when Image started, but Jim was still in high school.
3) A lot of it was due to the collapse of the sports trading card market, and those speculators latching onto comics as the next big thing, often via Wizard. Saw a bunch of those people because I was working at a comic shop through that whole thing. During the five years I worked there, five new comic shops came and went, all within a 30-minute drive of our shop (my shop is still going). Then, of course, the publishers went all in on those speculators, feeding Wizard's growth, which fed the speculators, which kept the publishers pushing to the speculators, and so on.